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50 Heller St. Agatha
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Agatha b. W. (Municipality of Sankt Agatha bei Wels) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0877Ib-50 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Agatha b. W. über 50 Heller 50 Die Gemeinde St. Agatha b. W. haftet für diesen Schein durch eine eigene Deckungsrücklage. Ablauf des Einlösungstermines: 30. September 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Altenhofer. Die Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzl. bestraft. Vom Feindesjoch und Thyraney / Und seiner großen Schinderei / Wach uns, o lieber Herrgott, frei; / Weil es dann gilt unser Leib und Bluat, / So gilt's auch unser Seel und Bluath; / Gott geb uns einen Heldenmuath! / Es muaß seyn! |
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| Reverse lettering | Sadinger-Hof. |
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St. Agatha bei Wels is a small rural parish in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922 when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Municipalities, businesses, and institutions issued their own emergency paper simply to make change — the central authorities had neither the metal nor the infrastructure to fill the gap quickly enough.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly in the Austrian Notgeld corpus. Altenhofer's single-name signature suggests a local official, almost certainly the Bürgermeister or municipal treasurer, whose authority gave the note whatever legal standing it carried within the community.